New York City is the most populated one in United States of Americas and the second biggest populated urban area in the World. It is composed of 5 boroughs (also County): Bronx, Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and Staten Island. With over 8,4 million people in the whole state, Manhattan (1.593.200 inhabitants) is the most known as there you find the financial, commercial and cultural centre in the city. Queens (2.256.576 inhabitants) is the largest borough, where you find 2 of the 3 airports serving the metropolitan area: La Guardia Airport and John F. Kennedy International Airport.Public transport is the main way of getting around for the people in the city. Curiously, New York is meant to be the only city in the USA where over half of the homes don't have a car. New York Underground is the biggest in the World (1.062 km) and also the network with the most active stations (468). It has 24 hour service in nearly 100% of the network. This also happens with the buses although there may be some exceptions, as we will see later. MTA, is the company that manages transport in the five boroughs. It has 4,578 (information from 2008), with 208 locales and 36 express routes throughout the 5 counties. Services are easily recognisable, as the lines are preceded by the letter of the county they run. M for Manhattan, Q for Queens, B for Brooklyn, BX for Bronx and S for Staten Island. You can pay by using the MetroCard or paying exact fare. Normally, buses run from every 5 to 15 minutes. Buses generally stop every other block on avenue routes and every block on cross-street routes.

Bus stops are well signalled and recognisable, showing the bus stopping. Sometimes, you can get Guide-a-Ride that includes information about the route plan and timetable. Access to the bus is done by the front door.

Q32 is a route that starts in Manhattan (7th Ave - Penn Station), near the Empire State Building, but soon crosses the bridge and runs around Queens until Jackson Heights where it has its terminal. According to its timetable, there are no services from 1.00 to 4.46am from Penn Station or from 1.25 am to 5.38 from Jackson Heights.

As you can see from the daylight picture, the bus uses the ramp for disabled passengers and it is using a hybrid electric bus... Who said America was not looking about the environment?Gracias a Javier y su esposa que en medio de sus vacaciones tuvieron tiempo para hacerme estas fotos... y contar alguna anédota.Thanks to Javier and his wife who, had some time in his holidays, to get these pictures for me... and be able to tell some annecdotes.